We encourage community involvement. The success of ORCID depends upon it! You may enter and vote on ideas for development on our iDeas Forum, check our Knowledge Base for technical documentation, or contact us with questions.

As an organization that is committed to openness (yes, the O in ORCID is for open), we are delighted to celebrate Open Access Week 2016 - and our 4th anniversary - by publishing our annual public data file.

It is a natural fit for ORCID to be involved in conversations about organization identifiers. We are a major stakeholder in this space. Working jointly with Crossref and DataCite, we have developed a set of working papers and now call for a Working Group to move an effort forward to stand up a community-based organization identifier registry. These papers will be open for feedback until mid-November after which a Working Group will be established to take on responsibility for the project.

The ORCID Trust program is now officially launched! Find out how we are working to improve our trustworthiness through four key concepts: Individual Control; Reliable Registry; Community Accountability; and Information Integrity. And please tell us what you think!

As an ORCID partner, we work with CASRAI to ensure that our metadata reflects the standard terms and record formats they advance, for example, in our peer review services data profile. We are therefore pleased to announce that CASRAI is holding its first Open Call for Participation in 2017 - learn more in this post by their Executive Director, David Baker.

We are very grateful to The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust for providing ORCID with a further $1.84M follow-on funding. Find out more about how this additional award will help support our continuing efforts to engage with our community and increase adoption of ORCID globally.

With several member organizations successfully implementing ORCID peer review functionality, we are now encouraging wider adoption across all sectors. Read more about how this functionality works, why it helps improve recognition for peer review, and where to find more information.

Helping researchers to get recognition for their many contributions - including their peer review actvities - is something we care deeply about at ORCID. It's also the theme for Peer Review Week 2016, which runs from September 19-25. We are delighted to share these examples of how the organizations involved in planning PRW are currently recognizing review, as well as some of their plans for the future.